Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	glory_n	life_n	7,443	5	4.5617	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64978	Christ the best husband: or An invitation of young women unto Christ Delivered in a sermon to young women. By Thomas Vincent, minister sometime of Maudlins Milkstreet, London.	Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.	1672 (1672)	Wing V428; ESTC R219230	16,515	32

Christ and farther intimacy defired by you Are pure and powerful Ordinances of great esteem with you Do you give all diligence to wait upon and for your Beloved in them 6. If you are espoused unto Christ then you endeavour to promote his interest and advance his name in the world then when others seek their own things you seek the things of Jesus Christ and look upon them as your own when others labour chiefly to lift up themselves in the esteem of men you labour above ill to lift up Christ in mens esteem you are commending your beloved above all others beloved and endeavour to bring others in love with him and into the same relation with your selves vnto him Can you shew such evidences as these of your espousals unto Christ And if beyond these you have love-tokens to shew which you have received from Christ if he have given you Soul-refreshing visits heart-ravishing siniles gracious returns to your Prayers the white stone a sight of your name written in his book the hidden manna the fruit of the tree of life a glympse of glory an earnest of your inheritance a fore-taste of Heaven un-utterable peace of conscience a heart enlarged with love to Him and filled sometimes with the joyes of the Holy Ghost such love-tokens as these may put it quite out of question whether you are espoused unto Christ when all these are the tokens of his conjugal especial and most endeared Love Use 2. For reproof of all those that refuse or neglect Christs invitation of them to be his Spouse 1. This is your great sin hereby you highly affront Christ and you exceedingly offend him I suppose it would offend and highly displease your selves should you make love to an inferiour and have your persons contemned and your love slighted by them Christ hath made love and made suit unto you who are infinitely inferiour unto him He calleth upon you and his great desire of you is that you would be his Spouse by your refusal of him and neglect of his invitation you contemn his person and slight his Love yea you preferr his inferiours before him even those that are not worthy to be nam'd with him and can there be a greater indignity offered If Christ should contemn you that are so mean and slight your Love as unworthy of any regard it would not be so much wonder It is no great wonder to see a Prince slight the aspiring conjugal Love of a Béggar but for you that are beggarly sinners to slight the person and love of such a Prince this is a great sin and provocation 2. This is your great folly as well as sin to refuse and neglect the gracious proffers of being made the Spouse of Christ hereby you forfeit all that especial Love of his which you might have with all the endeared expressions thereof by this refusal and neglect you chuse raggs before robes dross before gold pebbles before jewels guilt before a pardon wounds before healing defilement before cleansing deformity before comeliness trouble before peace slavery before liberty the service of the Devil before the service of Christ hereby you chuse dishonour before a crown death before life Hell before Heaven eternal pain and misery before everlasting joy and glory And need there a farther evidence of your folly and madness in refusing and neglecting of Christs invitation to be his Spouse Use 3. For comfort of all those that have hearkned considered and are inclined and perswaded to be the Spouse of Jesus Christ. 1. This is your wisdome they are foolish Virgins which refuse but you are the wise Virgins who have accepted of Christs proffer and have disposed your selves unto him you have made the wisest choice and however the blind World may deem you fools yet you are wise in the esteem of God and one day will be so in the esteem of them them that now despise you 2. This is your glory you that are espoused unto Jesus Christ are advanced unto great dignity and honour you are of all others in the world most highly preferred It is the dignity of Christ to be so near to the Father and it is your dignity to be so near unto Christ It is Christs honour beyond every creature that he is joyned in the hypostatical union unto the Father and it is your honour that you are joyned in this mystical and conjugal union and relation unto the eternal Son of God Let not the wise man glory in his wisdome nor the mighty man glory in his strength nor the wealthy man glory in his riches but you may glory in the Lord that you are espoused unto Christ glory not in your selves but in the Lord who hath most freely and graciously taken you into this relation 3. This is your safety If you are espoused unto Christ you are under the wing of his especial protection continually he is by this relation unto you engaged to protect and defend you and that from Sin and Sathan and eternal ruine and so long you are safe yea he hath a special regard for you in times of danger from men he hath secret chambers of his providence to hide you in when there are great storms and tempests of trouble about you and if such times should overtake you which are not very unlikely either he will preserve you from common desolation or by it lodge you with himself out of the reach of all future trouble 4. This may comfort you at all times and in all conditions that you are so nearly related unto Christ that he loveth you when the world hateth you that he careth for you and hath promised to provide for you what is needful here and at length will receive you to the mansions he hath prepared in his Fathers house where you shall see and share in his glory and take up your habitation for ever with him Use 4. For Exhortation both of those that as yet are not espoused unto Christ and of those that are espoused 1. You that are not as yet espoused unto Christ I shall direct my speech unto you and that to all both men and women but particularly to you that are young women whom especially I am now called to preach unto It may be novelty and curiosity hath hrought many hither this day which otherwise would not have been here and possibly the Lord may make use of this opportunity not only to invite by his Word but also to perswade by his Spirit some of you to espouse your selves unto him and if any souls may now be brought to a closure with Jesus Christ I shall attain my great end and both you and I shall rejoyce that I hearkened unto that motion and desire which was made to mee of preaching a particular Sermon unto young women as I have done many particularly unto young men Come Virgins will you give me leave to be a Suiter unto you not in my own name but in the name of my Lord May I prevail with you